I am annotating for psychological setting in LOTF and some things have stood out to me. I started the chart in the end of chapter 4 and wrote some but kind of dwindled at the end of chapter 5 because I couldn't put thoughts together very well.
OK so here I go...
In chapter 4 it got really happy and in the mood children should be in when some of the kids were reenacting killing the pig, but the mood went down when they all stopped because Ralph was calling an assembly for later when he was going to tell them a speech he wanted people to listen to and wanted it to sound authoritative and powerful.
Then in chapter 5, Ralph was calm and unburdened by all goings on on the island when walking on his strip of beach to think and then he was brave and prepared for his speech but then was thinking on what a leader was- a true leader- and had all these "must be"'s and how they have to make decisions and have to be wise, but then came to realize, even though Piggy wasn't chief material, he could think and was wise. Later on in his speech Ralph pointed out how lazy they all were saying how they would drink water from the stream that they put in coconut shells but ended up just drinking from the stream. He got all hopeful saying how they could start over and be happy and then Jack stepped in and ruined it talking about the beast and how it's making everybody scared because they're sissies and cry-babies and they had to man up and deal with it. This started a huge fight which made the tension rise a lot and at the end they- Ralph and Piggy- realized that grownups were who kept everybody in line at home but there were none here and it was going to be difficult without them.
The tension and bad or sad feelings have gone way up in these last 2 chapters, mainly chapter 5.
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